Knowledge Management and Creativity Practices in Software Engineering

Broderick Crawford, Claudio León de la Barra, Ricardo Soto, Sanjay Misra, Eric Monfroy

2012

Abstract

An increasing number of organizations are trending to teams for innovation and creativity. In software engineering it is the same, in the last years the traditional perspective on software development is changing and agile methods have received considerable attention. Among other attributes, the agilists claim that fostering knowledge sharing and creativity is one of the keys to response to common problems and challenges of software development today. The development of new software products requires the generation of novel and useful ideas. Here, we fixed some concepts from knowledge management and creativity in relation with new software engineering trends.

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Crawford B., León de la Barra C., Soto R., Misra S. and Monfroy E. (2012). Knowledge Management and Creativity Practices in Software Engineering . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-31-0, pages 277-280. DOI: 10.5220/0004141002770280


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@conference{kmis12,
author={Broderick Crawford and Claudio León de la Barra and Ricardo Soto and Sanjay Misra and Eric Monfroy},
title={Knowledge Management and Creativity Practices in Software Engineering},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={277-280},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004141002770280},
isbn={978-989-8565-31-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2012)
TI - Knowledge Management and Creativity Practices in Software Engineering
SN - 978-989-8565-31-0
AU - Crawford B.
AU - León de la Barra C.
AU - Soto R.
AU - Misra S.
AU - Monfroy E.
PY - 2012
SP - 277
EP - 280
DO - 10.5220/0004141002770280